— By 2025, a scenario familiar to watchers of sci-fi cartoon show "Futurama:" the capability to transplant the brain into a life-support system, which could be a robot body. Essentially, a robot prosthesis that can replace an ailing, perhaps dying body.

— By 2035, the ability to move the mind into a computer, eliminating the need for the robot bodies to carry around wet, messy brains.

Then we just invent hologram bodies within hologram bodies forever until the cycle breaks through as the universe quickly expands into just galaxies as dust in the wind and our holograms can no longer travel to another solar system as it will be trillions of lightyears away and they will float in the black empty abyss of a vacuum that it is.